Egypt bans GPS application on iPhone

Who owns the GPS satellites any way and I don't think its too hard to scramble them a bit. Mostly your gps enabled cell phone is a personal locator device

Yes it is a great pic motokoinversailles!

great pic on this post dont you think?

this is unfair, you can't do that. Its like they are trying to hide something. c-mon egypt get with the program

That sucks. My GPS app has saved me so many times.

really? that doesnt protect peoples freedom? on a cell phone a location can be triangulated to a large radio, hundreds of feet, on a gps locator like on the iphone, its just a matter of 10 feet give it or take. many of us dont mind having the possibility of being tracked every step, but the mere fact that it is a reality makes the whole thing irrelevant. it is all functional, the systems are up and running, there is nothing anyone can do about it, neither the egyptian government. cellphones spread better than humans, ratio over time passed. google maps is only getting better by the day. privacy has become a commodity, and scarce.

This is stupid! another example of a governments paranoia!

This quote says what I would like to express, but better:

"When Human Rights Watch was founded in 1978, he said, people were “smuggling letters by hand from the Soviet Union — that was how the world found out about a dissident.”

Today, there is a range of tools for spreading the word, from blogs to e-mail to YouTube videos.

"We do know that in the most closed places the worst things happen.”

Egypt deprives people of just about everything new...

I can understand it.

But it's also a halfway measure.

Go look. Online Google Satellite Maps of Mumbai are incredibly detailed, even including their naval dockyards. Any military strike force could have used them for recon tools while training an assault team to hit the city. And Mumbai was the Indian Navy's major hub.

With a combination of satellite maps and Egyptian GPS, given that the Egyptian Government is considered a US proxy by the jihadists and therefore is another likely target of the type of raid seen in Mumbai, giving any logistical benefit to a potential suicide squad wouldn't be very bright. .

Too cautious?

Think about what you saw in Mumbai...Then imagine you are Egyptian.

This is horrible!

That is a really weird thing to deprive people of. But maybe it's for the best in another respect..... is a society full of people dependent on personal GPS really a good thing?

"GPS is a military prerogative."

What a load o' crap!! Only governments are supposed to know where they are??????

BS!

That's really funny when you consider most 'government' types in ANY culture, can't find their own butts with both hands. GPS won';t help them!!

Even some of Napoleon's people nearly got lost in Cairo.